flyfisher42
Civil/Environmental
How would I raise the DO dramatically in a short time period, maybe a 1" PVC line?
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Dissolved Oxygen?
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Do what????????????
I've spent most of a career trying to keep disolved oxygen out of "Piping and Fluid Mechanics" systems. It accelerates corrosion in steel pipes.
If you are trying to get disolved oxygen into a pond (for example) you can expect to add about 2.5-5.0 lbm/hp-day of aeration pumps. This is a really strange set of units, but that is the way the literature discusses it. So if you have a 10 hp pump you'll add 600 -1,200 lbm/day to a pond. Then you just have to know the pond size to know how much you've changed the ppm.
Bubbling some air through a PVC pipe will do almost nothing to aid the aeration of a sizeable pond (this technique works fine for an aquarium, but it doesn't scale up very well).
David Simpson, PE
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I've spent most of a career trying to keep disolved oxygen out of "Piping and Fluid Mechanics" systems. It accelerates corrosion in steel pipes.
If you are trying to get disolved oxygen into a pond (for example) you can expect to add about 2.5-5.0 lbm/hp-day of aeration pumps. This is a really strange set of units, but that is the way the literature discusses it. So if you have a 10 hp pump you'll add 600 -1,200 lbm/day to a pond. Then you just have to know the pond size to know how much you've changed the ppm.
Bubbling some air through a PVC pipe will do almost nothing to aid the aeration of a sizeable pond (this technique works fine for an aquarium, but it doesn't scale up very well).
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
Please see FAQ731-376 for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips Fora.
The harder I work, the luckier I seem
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